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Virbhadra Singh resigns from cabinet
Tuesday June 26, 2012 01:44:20 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: Micro,
Small and Medium Enterprises Minister Virbhadra Singh resigned
Tuesday after a court in Shimla framed corruption charges against
him and his wife.
"I have submitted my resignation to the prime minister," the
veteran Congress leader told IANS after calling on Manmohan Singh
at his official residence here.
The prime minister has accepted the resignation, officials said.
Virbhandra Singh said he would return to Himachal Pradesh, his
home state, "to strengthen my party ahead of the forthcoming
(assembly) elections.
"I will fight it out both at the grassroots and in courts," he
added.
A Shimla court Monday framed charges of corruption against
Virbhadra Singh and his wife Pratibha Singh in connection with a
23-year-old case.
The former chief minister of Himachal Pradesh accused the
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government in the state of
vindictiveness.
"It has tried to register false cases against me earlier too,"
Virbhadra Singh told IANS. "In the past I have come out clean.
This time also I will come out clean."
The case against Virbhadra Singh pertains to a CD from 1989 which
allegedly shows him, when he was chief minister, and his wife
demanding a bribe to allow investment in Himachal Pradesh.
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